# what's this?

Pavel Curtis (pavel@parc.xerox.com)
Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:49:26 PST

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    The Ex-archwizard writes:
    > No reason it should have shut down, and no moo.db.new file either, so a
    > dump wasn't performed.
    > I lost a couple hours of work, and would appreciate any help in avoiding
    > such situations in the future.

    The server never shuts down *of its own accord* without trying to write a log
    file.  I've only seen a few ways for this to happen:
      -- somebody executed a `kill -9' command on the server process,
      -- a bug in the operating system caused the process to be killed without
         notification,
      -- your server executable is resident on an NFS file server and the server
         machine lost contact with that server while trying to swap in a page of
         the server, leaving it little choice but to kill the process without
         notification, or
      -- the machine lost power suddenly.

    Good luck, and remember to make backups.

    	Pavel